Like No Tomorrow
Louder notes ascended. Yet, even then they rest,
Each eye was wake, and every heaving breath is a nuisance to my chest
Was panting for revenge, I was approached with just a bunch of sticks,
The awful hour, long hoped for it come long forefixed
Sacred to vengeance, to the thirst; quench of blood,
And bitter retribution. Slowly rolled through the wrinkles of the mud
The moments, whilst with anxious minds, faces coated with paint,
Waited the voice that loosed them from physical restraint
And turned them on their tyrants: could not be more prompt,
The nitrous grain, that, at the touch of fire, pride would be stomped
Bursts in resistless flame: Thoug hthe voice of God would oppress,
Is heard; but through each deep thought and dark recess--
A hollow murmer rises, that shakes trees and upbraids birds,
The long delay took its toll, yet the voice is heard!
Whilst in each agitated breast, clouds form, it starts to rain,
Dismay, and doubt, and desparation will not reign
Or feels the fiery torture.—"Rise, revenge,
"Revenge your wrongs," the expected voice exclaims, now avenge.
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And meets a ready answer, from the tongues of hell,
Of countless numbers, from each gloomy cell, but who shall tell
The wild commotion; what the frantic rage pours,
Of savage fury, when, with nothing but a joint accord
They burst the opposing gratings, and poured forth,
Impetuous as the flood that breaks its mound becomes warlords
What's thought unarmed!—upon the unsparing steel,
They rushed regardless; and the expected wound wasn't real
Deep, but not always deadly, it roused their minds,
To fiercer desparation: thronging close, became the signs
Fearless, and firm, they joined the unequal war cries,
And when the fatal weapon pierced their side
They struggled to retain it, and after death came hell,
Disarmed the hand that conquered.—The rapidly fell
But if not not unrevenged, for fastening close,
Upon the foe some gained the vessel's side became a ghost
And rushed together to a watery death, we sing our songs,
Whilst from the yawning hold, emerging throngs.
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